The Library of America
Oct. 30th, 2011 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI've been a member of the Library of America book club for quite a long time. They do supply nice books: high-quality, a strong tendency towards completeness, and good textual apparatus and supplementary material. The biggest problem is that I've become rather leery of buying books by major (or even middle-rank) USAn authors, since LoA might well supercede my purchase with their next volume.
Anyway. I'm trying to get caught up on my finances after a long lax spell, and among the bills to be paid is that for the last two LoA volumes. I just got around to opening the boxes, and found a couple of pleasant surprises, authors I don't have and would be likely to impulse-buy if I ran across them: Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary, plus many (all?) of his short stories and memoirs), and Shirley Jackson (the volume is titled Novels and Stories, and indicates that it includes "The Lottery", "The Haunting of Hill House", "We Have Always Lived in the Castle", and, it says, Other Stories and Sketches). I don't know when I'll get around to reading them - most LoA volumes sit on the shelves for quite a while - but I suspect it'll be sooner rather than later.
:rubs hands:
Anyway. I'm trying to get caught up on my finances after a long lax spell, and among the bills to be paid is that for the last two LoA volumes. I just got around to opening the boxes, and found a couple of pleasant surprises, authors I don't have and would be likely to impulse-buy if I ran across them: Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary, plus many (all?) of his short stories and memoirs), and Shirley Jackson (the volume is titled Novels and Stories, and indicates that it includes "The Lottery", "The Haunting of Hill House", "We Have Always Lived in the Castle", and, it says, Other Stories and Sketches). I don't know when I'll get around to reading them - most LoA volumes sit on the shelves for quite a while - but I suspect it'll be sooner rather than later.
:rubs hands:
